Kakao Healthcare
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Earnings
Kakao bets on AI bot for breakthrough
Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant chat app KakaoTalk, will seek a breakthrough with an artificial intelligence-powered bot a...
Nov 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Kakao in emergency mode under regulatory, antitrust probes
Kim Beom-soo, founder and chairman of South Korea’s largest mobile platform Kakao Corp., convened an emergency meeting with some 20 chief exec...
Nov 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Naver-invested ichrogene enters Thai market
South Korea's digital healthcare startup ichrogene, with investment from Naver D2 Startup Factory (D2SF), entered into Thai market. Naver Corp....
Nov 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Elec to launch new business with startup: LG NOVA head
SAN FRANCISCO – LG Electronics Inc. will set up a new business entity focusing on some of its new growth pillars — digital healthcare, c...
Oct 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Lunit joins Saudi gov't healthcare sandbox
South Korea's medical AI company Lunit has joined the Saudi Arabian government's Healthcare Sandbox initiative, a move to advance digital transforma...
Oct 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics partners with Europe's largest VC
Samsung Biologics Co., the world's largest contract drug manufacturer, announced on Tuesday it has teamed up with global biotech venture capitalist ...
Oct 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Kakao Enterprise, Salesforce establish joint sales partnership
South Korea's Kakao Enterprise Corp. announced on Friday that it has formed a joint sales partnership with Salesforce Korea to support digital innov...
Oct 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion Healthcare wins Remsima order in France, Italy
South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. announced on Wednesday its autoimmune disease treatment Remsima (ingredient: infliximab) has won a bid for ho...
Oct 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion Healthcare to supply Yuflyma to US pharmacy chain
South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. has inked a deal with the US specialty pharmacy chain CarePartners Pharmacy to supply its autoimmune disease ...
Oct 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Foreign tourists can use Kakao Taxi in S.Korea
South Korea’s Kakao Mobility announced on Thursday that it has started integrating its taxi service app Kakao T with overseas apps. Foreign to...
Oct 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Kakao completes first in-house data center
South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp. has completed construction of its first in-house data center that can store 120,000 computer servers, with its l...
Sep 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
Samsung Welstory to develop corporate healthcare menu
South Korean food and beverage (F&B) company Samsung Welstory has teamed up with Kangbuk Samsung Hospital to develop business-to-business (B2B) ...
Sep 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Chemicals to sell pharmaceutical unit to Glenwood PE
SK Chemicals Co., a South Korean plastic materials producer, is in exclusive talks with Seoul-based Glenwood Private Equity to sell its pharmaceutic...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Hyundai E&C, Naver Cloud to develop futuristic healthy housing model
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction (E&C) on Thursday announced its signing of a deal with Naver Cloud on cooperation in the de...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Kakao Pay’s tie-up with Alipay spurs growth in China
BEIJING – Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is rapidly growing in China’s fintech...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion Healthcare to supply Yuflyma to five regional gov’ts in Italy
South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. announced on Monday that it will supply its biosimilar Yuflyma (active ingredient: adalimumab) for the treatm...
Sep 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
Lotte Healthcare to launch AI-based health management platform
South Korea's Lotte Healthcare has entered the digital healthcare market through the launch next week of its personalized healthcare management pl...
Sep 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK C&C to provide corporate employee healthcare
South Korea’s SK C&C on Tuesday signed an agreement to offer employee healthcare management programs to companies with digital healthcare ...
Sep 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Kakao Mobility to build mobility-customized GenAI platform
South Korea's Kakao Mobility has announced a vision to build an evolved platform with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) specialized for mob...
Sep 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Kakao Mobility to collaborate with Indonesia on digital economy
South Korea's Kakao Mobility announced on Tuesday that it is discussing ways to collaborate on building the digital ecosystem with major platform co...
Sep 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Virtual bands, emerging stars to fuel global K-pop craze
Virtual bands have emerged as new stars to accelerate the K-pop craze across the world. An artificial girl quartet attracted more than 25 million vi...
Aug 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
DongKoo Bio & Pharma to enter Philippine healthcare market
South Korea’s DongKoo Bio & Pharma Co. on Tuesday said it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Philippine healthcare group Adizat...
Aug 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
CJ CheilJedang, Kakao Healthcare sign business agreement
South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Friday that it has signed a business agreement with Kakao Healthcare, a digital healthcare...
Aug 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
NCSOFT gears up to take on Naver, Kakao for AI language model
NCSOFT Corp. has unveiled a large-scale Korean language model as the first South Korean game developer to advance into the local-language generative...
Aug 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean LLM war intensifies to fend off ChatGPT
South Korean technology companies, both big and small, are rushing to advance Korean large language models (LLM) to fend off the pioneering chatbot ...
Aug 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Kakao Healthcare signs agreement with Novo Nordisk for digital service
Kakao Healthcare Corp., a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced that it has signed on Tuesday a business agreemen...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mobile networks
Kakao to release super-large AI model, superapp
Kakao Corp. on Thursday announced that it will transform South Korea’s dominant mobile messaging app KakaoTalk into an AI-powered platform com...
Aug 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
KakaoBank posts record H1 profit; costs hurt Kakao Games’ Q2 earnings
KakaoBank Corp., a leading South Korean internet-only bank, saw its first-half net profit rise to a fresh record high, driven by decent growth in in...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
K-pop powerhouse SM to launch US office with Kakao
K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment Co. and Kakao Entertainment will jointly launch an office in the US later this year to boost their global business...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Kakao Brain unveils AI development library Trident
Kakao Brain, an artificial intelligence (AI) R&D subsidiary of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced on Tuesday that it has released a performanc...
Jul 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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